COMINGS AND GOINGS AT KPRC
Traffic reporter heads for the exit; former JAX reporter at the entrance
Category: As The Revolving Door Turns
AND ANOTHER ONE GONE
Nashville anchor turns her back on tv news
INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW…
Kansas City revolving door has an AWOL chief met. Viewers are curious.
ONE YEAR AND OUT FOR KC NEWS DIRECTOR
The tenth ND in 13 years
WE ARE HEARING…
All is not well in a South Carolina market
A CHANGE COMING TO PROVIDENCE NEXT MONTH
As one vet exits, another steps in
BUH-BYE TO THE APPLE
Six months after she was welcomed back from maternity leave and 5½ years after joining the station, reporter Candace McCowan is saying goodbye to Disney’s WABC in New York City. McCowan came to WABC, ...
IS ANYBODY LEFT IN THE SPORTS DEPARTMENT?
Hmmm…..the sports department at Disney’s WTVD in Raleigh-Durham, NC is having quite the workout these days. Yesterday, we told you that Joe Pulliam was headed west to sister station KABC in Los Angeles. And ...
CLEANING OUT THE CNN+ EXCESS
While new CNN CEO Chris Licht keeps a close eye on the likes of Don Lemon, Jim Acosta and Brian Stelter in an effort to steer them away from the rocky shoals of partisanship ...
LONGTIME EXEC STEPS DOWN
He’s heading to a job outside of news.
FOX DC HIRES NEW CHIEF LEGAL CORRESPONDENT
Katie Barlow is WTTG’s new chief legal correspondent. A former lawyer, she comes from WTOP in D.C. where she covered Capitol Hill. She also has her own podcast and has worked with NPR. Paul ...
COMING HOME TO ATLANTA
It was a dream that came true.
HEADED FOR HOUSTON
Four years into the business and this reporter is jumping from the Sarasota market (just outside of Tampa) to Houston. Daniela Hurtado is leaving WWSB and heading to KTRK – MARKET 8. “I’m blessed ...
A BUFFALO GM? THE EXIT IS OVER THERE
Just two years after he landed in Buffalo after an unceremonious dumping at CBS-owned KYW in Philadelphia, Brien Kennedy is leaving Nexstar’s WIVB He’s the fourth GM in eight months to exit Buffalo television. ...
TELEMUNDO NAMES NEW ND FOR COMBINED ARIZONA OPERATION
Telemundo Arizona, which consists of two Telemundo properties KTAZ and Phoenix and KHRR in Tucson, appointed Noe Gonzalez Vice President of news. Gonzalez will oversee performance of the station’s newsrooms and the news production ...
LET’S HOPE THIS ATLANTA NEWS DIRECTOR STICKS FOR AWHILE
We’ll say it out loud. Veteran newser Kim Saxon is rolling the dice in taking the news director job at the notorious revolving door that is WGCL in Atlanta, GA. She’ll be the NINTH ...
MORE HEARST EXECS SHUFFLE
This is one of a few in a week.
KANSAS GM RETIRES AFTER FOUR DECADES
KMBC’s longtime general manager and president Sarah Smith is going to retire from her job with Hearst in Kansas City at the end of the year. Smith will end her career in broadcasting after ...
GCL ND OUT: A NEW GRAY GM SPINS THE REVOLVING DOOR
Erik Schrader is the seventh GM in 12 years at Gray’s newly-acquired WGCL. And he is now looking to replace news director Matt King. Schrader’s hire would be the ninth news director in 13 ...
AND YET ANOTHER GRAY ANCHOR GONE
This one is Kerri Hayden, a 25-year employee at KGWN in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She took to social media after her work shift on Saturday. http:// Hayden says she requested a religious/medical exemption in August ...
DAN HARRIS NEEDS MORE NAMASTE
We give him credit for finding time to do it all.
NEXSTAR GETS SERIOUS IN SAN FRANCISCO
An investigation is underway.
MOVIN’ AND GROOVIN’
Moves in the management world.
THEN THERE WAS THIS ONE
ABC Network President Debra O’Connell told the troops this week that O&O division president Wendy McMahon is ‘moving on from the company’ with ‘immediate effect’. Here’s the memo.: McMahon had worked for Walt Disney ...
SPECTRUM CUTS AT NY1
And justlikethat, about a dozen jobs vanished at NY1 on Wednesday when the Spectrum bosses of NY1 eliminated the news assistant’s job classification in the newsroom. It shouldn’t have come as a complete surprise. ...
THE SPINNING EXIT DOOR
Roxann Fisher is no longer the news director at Morgan Murphy‘s KAVU in Victoria, TX. She didn’t make it a year, having only been hired last April. She came from the PR world, but ...
FROM TV TO A CRUISE
Holland America Line has named Emmy Award-winning Seth Wayne as their brand ambassador where he will serve in a versatile role including roving reporter as the cruise line launches “HAL Aboard,” a multimedia line-up ...
OUT AND IN THE DOOR IN INDY
Indianapolis tv news viewers who took a holiday may have missed the fact that Frank Mickens, morning anchor for Nexstar’s WTTV is no longer with the station. Mickins had been with the station for ...
THE EXIT DOOR KEEPS SPINNING IN CINCY
Will the last staffer at Sinclair’s WKRC in Cincinnati remember to turn out the lights? The count is up to three empty anchor slots at the station this year, weekender Perry Schaible being the ...
EXITING THE NEWSROOM IN PHILLY
The door that revolves between tv newsrooms and government offices continues to revolved, this time in Philadelphia. After eight years as morning reporter for Fox-owned WTXF in Philadelphia, PA, Dave Kinchen is packing it ...
DFW’S DOOR REVOLVES AGAIN
Five years + is enough for Dallas MMJ Tim Ciesco and he is taking leave of NBC-owned KXAS and the business altogether. According to Uncle Barky, Ciesco, who has been shooting, editing and reporting ...
THE EXIT DOOR TURNS IN NEW HAVEN
New faces will be popping up at Nexstar’s WTNH in New Haven, CT as two staffers head for the exits. Anchor Scott McDonnell is leaving his prime anchor spot at the station to return ...
AND THE KPIX EXIT DOOR KEEPS REVOLVING
Deanno’s exit is not the only departure from the KPIX newsroom. Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman reports that reporters Melissa Caen and Christin Ayers are also leaving. Caen was the station’s political reporter and ...
ROCHESTER’S REVOLVING DOOR
The exit door keeps spinning in the Rochester, NY market. The latest two to plan their exit at Hubbard’s WHEC are reporter Stephanie Robusto and early-morning co-anchor Pat Taney. Robusto, who’s been with the ...
THE CHICAGO SHUFFLE CONTINUES….
As we reported last month and confirmed yesterday, Ryan Baker, longtime sports anchor at the CBS-owned WBBM will move over to the news side as co-anchor the perpetually-challenged morning show at the end of ...
ANOTHER EMPTY CHAIR IN ATLANTA
Barely a year after taking on the main anchor duties at Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta, GA, Thomas Roberts is going, going….gone. He won’t be returning from the two-week vacation that began August 17th. “Sometimes ...
ON THE MOVE
Lexington radio and television host Matt Jones has been let go from his position as host of “Hey Kentucky!” on WLEX (NBC). Jones said in a tweet late last week that WLEX had “made ...
OFF TO THE WORLD OF PR
Many is the time we heard a co-worker on a particularly frustrating day threaten to leave for a PR job. Not many ever acted on it. But down in Atlanta, that is exactly what ...
WHEN WILL THIS STOP?
One particular revolving door we’d like to see locked forever is the one connecting newsrooms and government offices. It’s commonplace with the current Administration and Fox News and seems to be a growing epidemic. ...
PERIOD OF STABILITY ENDING?
Becky Lutgen Gardner is leaving Sinclair’s KGAN in Cedar Rapids, IA but will stay through the transition. She’s been the news director here for almost six years, putting an end to a six news ...
WEATHER AS SOAP OPERA
In what is possibly the worst-kept secret in the soap opera that surrounds the status of Rochester, NY’s tv meteorologists, Stacey Pensgen has been hired as a meteorologist at Hubbard’s WHEC. Her hiring comes ...
REVOLVING DOOR SWINGS AGAIN BETWEEN 1600 AND FOX
Keep the WD-40 handy. The revolving door between the White House and FOX keeps moving. Former White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah has joined Fox Corporation as a senior vice president. Shah joins ...
SAN ANTONIO SHAKE UP
KENS (CBS) said hello to a new TV personality recently while saying goodbye to another in the Alamo City. Sunday night, longtime weekend meteorologist Jared Silverman said adios to the station he has called ...
ANOTHER ONE CROSSES THE LINE
We’ve never been comfortable with the revolving door between government flackery and the world of journalism, no matter how pretty a face you try to paint on it. So we winced when CNN reported ...
PACKING UP IN KNOXVILLE
Taz Painter’s leaving Tegna’s WBIR in Knoxville, TN in early August. General Manager David Hunt shared the news with the staff in this email. This is Taz’s second stint at WBIR: he was managing editor ...
A HURRIED EXIT
Ryan Minnaugh has left his job as news director for Nexstar’s WFLA in Tampa. He’d been there just over one year following a 2 1/2 year stint as ND for WTKR in Norfolk. There, he ...
SANDERS SPLITS
And now the question is, which cable network will win the race to sign outgoing White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders? Because nothing attracts some news executives more effectively than utter contempt. We’ll ...
GREENE GONE
She didn’t make it two years. Angela Green is out as news director at Lockwood Broadcasting’s WFXG in Augusta, GA. She joined the station in October of 2017, coming off a four-year stint at ...
“WE JUST DECIDED TO MOVE IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION”
If ever a phrase needed to be put to rest by cliché-ridden managers, that one is it. It was most recently employed by WTOL general manager Brian Lorenzen in describing the exit this week ...
SPEAKING OF WFAA
Kezhal Dashti, who in December was hired as “social media” anchor for WFAA (ABC)’s Daybreak, has decided to leave the Dallas-based station, several sources confirm to Blogger Ed Bark. Her official “News Team” bio has ...
TEGNA TURNOVER
Another Tegna station, another news director opening as Linda Kotsaftis is leaving KUSA in Denver, CO. She’s a 20 year veteran of the station and has been News Content Director since last July. Her replacement will ...
ATLANTA SPORTS ANCHOR
WSB(ABC) has hired a second sports anchor. Alison Mastrangelo arrived last month and fills a void left by Anthony Amey. She came from KMGH (ABC) in Denver and joins Zach Klein. By coincidence, she covered Super Bowl ...
LOSE A GASBAG, GAIN A GASBAG
Seem like only a couple of days ago that we learned of yet another move through the revolving door where cable and broadcast news and politics intersect. Wait….it WAS only a couple of days. ...
CHICAGO HOUSE-CLEANING
No, this item has no comment from statement management at CBS-owned WBBM. Why would the buyouts of 4 veteran newsroom employees merit any comment? Leading the parade to the exit is Deidra White who’s ...
GLOR SAYS GOODBYE
We’ll leave to you to decided whether or not Jeff Glor got handed a raw deal with the end of his brief tenure as the face of the “CBS Evening News.” There are as ...
A RESURFACING
Andy Paras is joining Heartland Media’s WFFT in Ft. Wayne, IN as news director. We told you last month that Andy was leaving WGFL in Gainesville, FL, after two years as ND. Paras was the ...
ADAM BAGNI EXPLAINS IT ALL FOR YOU
In case you were wondering…..and some evidently were. His Arizona adventure lasted a little over 15 months.
CNN STAFFERS GONE
CNN says roughly 100 employees have accepted voluntary buyouts a month after an overhaul by parent company AT&T. CNN’s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter, also confirmed the rumor, via social media. There's a rumor ...
A NEW NEWS DIRECTOR IN CHARLESTON….AGAIN
A transfer within Nexstar sends Rod Jackson to the revolving door at WOWK in Huntington/Charleston, WV from ND for the company’s WBRE-WYOU in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. He’s a former ND in Cedar Rapids, worked as an Assistant ND ...
PUT A LOCK ON THIS REVOLVING DOOR
Enough is enough. It is past time to seal up the revolving door between politics and the cable news pundit’s chair. Back in 2016, CNN hired Symone Sanders as a political gasbag after she ...
LONGTIME “TODAY SHOW” PRODUCER HEADS FOR “TONIGHT”
This is becoming a well-traveled path at network television and perhaps it’s because we have now arrived at the perfect intersection of news and entertainment and what appears to be a new, and highly ...
SACRAMENTO SIGN-OFF
The Sacramento shakeup continues as weekend anchor Ali Wolf bid farewell to Tribune’s KTXL over Monday night. Her next stop is highly classified, it seems but, as she put it on her social media ...
NEXSTAR’S W.VA. REVOLVING DOOR
Grendel Levy has left Nexstar’ s WOWK in Charleston-Huntington, WV. She’s been the ND here for just about a year. Grendel spent six years at KIVI in Boise, the last four as ND for that ...
ANOTHER EXIT AT KGO
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman is at it with renewed fervor these days. His latest item is about yet another exit at Disney’s KGO in San Francisco. Lieberman reports that anchor/reporter/storyteller/(deepbreath)/digital specialist Matt Keller ...
A QUICK EXIT AND ENTRANCE
Samaia Hernandez has worn a few different hats in the worlds of Connecticut media and politics. Just 14 months ago, she returned to Hartford as a reporter for Meredith’s WFSB. That was quick. A ...
HOW NOT TO BUILD VIEWER LOYALTY
Chicago tv watcher Robert Feder provides some perspective: For the 13th time in 20 years, CBS-owned WBBM in Chicago has a new front line on its nightly newscasts. The appointment [ last] week of ...
“TIME TO HANG UP MY “REPORTING CLEATS””
The post-sweeps shakeout continues across the nation…. Yes, we’re hearing of a “new chapter in life” for Christine Dobbyn, reporter for Disney’s KTRK in Houston, TX. A new chapter that is beginning 14 years ...
PURSUING “SOME EXCITING NEW OPPORTUNITIES”
And Tegna loses another vet. This time it’s Ron Corning, who’s been a mainstay as “Daybreak” anchor at Tegna’s WFAA since 2011. While he evidently doesn’t know where the hell he will end up, ...
NOT EVEN SHINE COULD POLISH THIS ONE
We have no idea how those White House press briefings will go forward now that Bill Shine has abruptly left the building. Oh…wait…. Shine, the former Fox News harassment enabler-cum-CEO, was the guy whose ...
WHAT’S THE DEAL AT NEXSTAR INDY?
There appears to be a mass exodus underway at Nexstar’s WISH in Indianapolis, IN and astute NewsBluesers are watching.. We’ve reported on several of them in recent weeks, and it’s beginning to add up. ...
NEW FACES IN CLEVELAND
Alan Cohn has joined Gray’s WOIO from sister station WWSB in Sarasota, FL. He’d been with the Florida station for the past three and a half years. Cohn is apparently the replacement for the ...
CHANGES IN SAN LUIS OBISPO
Jessica Vo, KSBY (NBC) sports director, is leaving the TV station after two and a half years, she announced on Twitter on Monday night. But her replacement will be a familiar face: current weekend sports ...
DALLAS TELEMUNDO GM OUT
John Treviño is no longer president and GM of Telemundo Dallas, after the company eliminated his position. Mediamoves.com reports his last day at Telemundo 39 was February 1. Tom Ehlmann, president and GM of ...
THE ATLANTA SHUFFLE
And the changes keep coming at Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta. Assistant News Director Rudy Murrietta left after the Not-So-Super-Bowl to join his wife in Florida, where she’s taken a new job. And speaking of ...
HE’S BAACK
So, last summer, James Rider told viewers he was leaving Dayton Ohio’s WRGT (Fox) after five years, only mentioning he was going to be in town monitoring all the “local, state and national sports.” Goodbye Dayton ...
A CROWD HITS THE REVOLVING DOOR AT KSDK
Meteorologist Jessica Quick and on-air reporters Brittney Verner and Rachel Menitoff are not being offered new contracts and are headed for the door at Tegna’s KSDK in St. Louis. The station, which is “on ...
DALLAS REPORTER DEPARTS TEGNA
Much like Don Quixote, reporter Todd Unger of TEGNA8 has decided to leave the Dallas-based station after six years and chase new windmills. Don’t get us wrong, he’s a great reporter and we hate ...
ANCHOR LANDS NEW JOB
A Pittsburgh newscaster who was previously fired for comments deemed racially insensitive about a shooting has a new job in broadcasting. KDKA-AM News Radio 1020 announced last week that it hired former WTAE (ABC) ...
CHARLESTON UNREST
We’re hearing that times are unsettled at WTAT in Charleston, SC, the station owned by Sinclair beard Cunningham Broadcasting A number of employees have recently taken the out door and have walked away. The ...
KCCI NEWS DIRECTOR TO RETIRE
Dave Busiek learned the power of television on his first assignment for KCCI (CBS) in April 1979. The story was about a girl who needed an expensive surgery. Busiek filed the story and it ...
THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG
Those who worked a Tribune’s ill-fated news operations in Dallas and Houston will be receiving their final paycheck, a severance of sorts, in a few days. But, one the lucky ones who was able ...
WHEN THE DREAM NO LONGER IS….
Cory Hepola once called the weekend anchor job at Tegna’s KARE in Minneapolis his dream job. The dream, evidently, is over. Hepola is leaving the station January 6th. “All I ever wanted to do ...
SOUTH BEND ANCHOR TO RETIRE
After nearly 40 years at WNDU (NBC) Maureen McFadden announced last week that she’s going to retire early next year. She has served at the WNDU anchor desk since October, 1983. Maureen shares the ...
OMAHA EXIT
Joe Spadea has left Scripps’ KMTV in Omaha, after more than six years as news director. He’s a former ND in Oklahoma City and has also worked in Los Angeles, Boston, Providence, and Lancaster, PA.
HARRISBURG PA ANCHOR SIGNS OFF
And another tv news vet decides to bail. Al Gnoza signed off last week from Sinclair’s WHP in Harrisburg, PA with the announcement that he is also leaving the business. He’s going to work ...
DID TEGNA DO AN ABOUT-FACE IN CHARLOTTE?
Our sources are telling us that months after not renewing her contract, WCNC Charlotte has abruptly changed its mind and rehired Carolyn Bruck as morning co-anchor. We’re told her first day back will be ...
SPURS REPORTER REBOUNDS
Former San Antonio Spurs Fox Reporter Cayleigh Griffin has left the Alamo City and is now in Cleveland Ohio where she will work as a reporter/host for the Cavaliers. Griffin announced the move on ...
KANSAS DEPARTURES
Some changes in Wichita Kansas to tell you about. First, KSN (NBC) News weekday morning anchor Katie Taube announced she will leave the station on Oct. 31. In a Facebook post, Taube wrote that ...
YOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN….AND AGAIN
Chuck Carter returns to Nexstar’s WTNH in New Haven/Hartford as ND. It’s his third tour of duty at the station. He’d been the Assistant ND at WTNH until June, when he returned to Philadelphia as ...
NEXSTAR KEEPS IT IN THE FAMILY
Nexstar’s KSNW in Wichita, KS has hired Gwyn Bevel to be the station’s new morning anchor. She comes from sister station KFDX in Wichita Falls, Texas when she’s been since 2005, most recently as ...
BACK TO NORMAL LIFE – WHATEVER THAT IS
Six years after leaving her fulltime reporting job at Houston’s KHOU and a little over a year after she signed on as a freelancer with Graham Media’s KPRC, Leigh Frillici once again bid farewell ...
DC ANCHOR LEAVING
This is the last week for WUSA (CBS) anchor Debra Alfarone. She announced the move on her Facebook page a couple weeks ago saying, “I’ll still be based here in DC, working on an exciting ...
ON THE MOVE
KRIS (NBC) Anchor Stephania Jimenez has landed in Philadelphia at WCAU (NBC) as weekend morning anchor. Quite a jump from Corpus Christi Texas. She joined Dray Clark on the weekend anchor desk replacing Rosemary ...
LONGTIME KNOXVILLE ND OUT THE DOOR
Jamie Foster abruptly left Nexstar owned WATE in Knoxville, TN. He’d been the ND at since September, 2006 He’s also worked in Washington, Richmond, and South Florida. Alison Coe, currently assistant news director at ...
PHOENIX ANCHOR DEPARTS
In Phoenix Arizona Wednesday, Andrea Robinson said goodbye to the morning show on KSAZ (FOX) after 12 years on the air. “This has been a long decision that it took to get to this ...
ON THE MOVE
A longtime Utah news anchor bid farewell this week. KSTU‘s (FOX) Hope Woodside signed off Tuesday. Woodside had been at the Tribune-owned station anchoring the 9 p.m. for 23 years. No immediate word on her ...
ANCHOR CHANGE NY TELEMUNDO
Viewers of WNJU (Telemundo) New York are seeing a new face this week at 6 pm and 11 pm. Edgardo Del Villar, started in his new role Monday. He’s previously been on the 5 ...
THAT WAS QUICK
It was only last July that Emily Roehler signed off from Gray Television’s KKTV in Colorado Springs, CO to take a weather guesser job at WeatherNation. Now, Roehler has been announced as the new ...
